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It's not much to look at, though :) Improvements welcome. Also, ffm suggested on IRC that I add page text searching as well. Perhaps a 'This page' option could be added to the combo box, along with Next & Previous buttons. I also just noticed that the Read activity has a search bar in the Edit toolbar. Browse lacks an Edit toolbar, so this might be yet another option - add an Edit toolbar to Browse, and add the search provider combo box to that. Best, Wade On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Screeshots? :) > > Eben, can you comment on the UI side of this. > > Thanks, > Marco > > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Wade Brainerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hey all. >> >> This is an idea for a Search toolbar in Browse, submitted in order to >> generate discussion. It's not acceptable as-is although I wouldn't >> mind feedback on the code and interface. >> >> The real reason for the patch is that I've been helping with the >> Wikiserver project - briefly, this is a custom BaseHTTPServer-based >> web server which serves a 100MB slice of the Spanish Wikipedia, in >> compressed wikitext form. The server is wrapped into a Browse-based >> activity bundle. The web server starts when the activity launches, >> and shuts down when the activity exits. The Browse activity is set up >> to launch directly into the server's home page. >> >> As a next step, we need to be able to search the wiki, so we planned >> to add an HTML search form to the top of each page that the server >> returns. But rather than wasting page space and forcing the user to >> scroll all the way up to execute another search, wouldn't it be better >> to simply add a search box to the toolbar? This led me to adding a >> Search toolbar to Browse. >> >> And that thought led me to, wouldn't it be better to have this web >> server running all the time (or at least whenever Browse is running)? >> In that case, our Wikiserver project could simply be another kind of >> content bundle, there would be no need for the activity at all. >> >> Best, >> >> Wade >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
